{"id":10698,"date":"2026-09-09T13:24:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T20:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=10698"},"modified":"2026-09-09T13:24:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T20:24:46","slug":"bare-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2026\/09\/09\/bare-metal\/","title":{"rendered":"Bare Metal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or, concrete.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/bare-scaled.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2011\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/bare-scaled.png 2560w, https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/bare-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/bare-1024x804.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/bare-768x603.png 768w, https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/bare-1536x1206.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/bare-2048x1609.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/bare-600x471.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The wagon of course is at a shop 500 miles away. For the next 2.5 weeks. I spoke to the Gary yesterday and made sure that we&#8217;re checking things like the separator plate while everything is out on the operating table. <\/p>\n<p>After we hashed that through I ran the pickup over to the local garage to get its most pressing need (the ignition switch) taken care of, so I can have something to drive in the meantime, and probably to Flag at least once in to absence of the RME.  <\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s leftover? The van, which we just dropped the asking price for&#8211;a bargain at $9500&#8211;mostly useful as an asset for liquidating under the current line of thinking.<\/p>\n<p>The old trailer, which currently (maybe permanently) functions as a storage shed. To become an ALiner stand-in, it would need at minimum a set of tires and some exterior leak-patching work, and even at that it is a little too short to stand up in comfortably. (But then, so is an ALiner, except for when I&#8217;d be standing at the stove and kitchen sink. Context is everything.)<\/p>\n<p>Behind the gate are two more pieces. There&#8217;s the rack from the pickup, which doesn&#8217;t have a function except as a temporary stand for &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>The shell. Which is intended to serve an important function, by turning the pickup into a viable mini-camper, long before I can think about affording an ALiner. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or, concrete. The wagon of course is at a shop 500 miles away. For the next 2.5 weeks. I spoke to the Gary yesterday and made sure that we&#8217;re checking things like the separator plate while everything is out on the operating table. After we hashed that through I ran the pickup over to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10700,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10698\/revisions\/10700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}